What is reiki?Reiki  (pronounced ray-key) is a  Japanese technique used for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing.  Rei means universal  and  Ki means  life energy. Reiki then means universal life energy. Reiki  practice is believed to have originated in Tibet more than 2,500 years ago, and  was  rediscovered in the early 1900s by a Japanese man named Dr.Mikao Usui.  This is where a woman named Mrs. Takata experienced reiki’s healing effects. She was so impressed with her results she learned reiki and brought it to the west in 1938.  in aReiki is a therapy that the practitioner delivers through the hands, with the intent to raise the Ki ,or Qi,  in and around the client.  

     How does reiki work?We are alive because life energy or Ki flows through us. The human body functions on an electro-chemical energy system. This means that, in addition to the chemical vascular/ muscular system, you also have an electrically operated nervous system. And because our bodies are biological systems, our electrical signals will vary with activity and health of the body/mind. That is where Reiki helps. Ki flows in the physical body through pathways called chakras, meridians, and nadis. It also flows around us in a field of energy called the aura. When Ki is balanced we are in good health.  When it is not we are more susceptible to dis-ease. When a person receives a Reiki treatment the universal life energy assesses where the person has energy blocks. The healing energy is then directed there. This is usually nearest to where the Reiki practitioners hands are placed on the recipients body. But sometimes it will go to the block that is most important, or in need of it, even if it is far away from the practitioners hands.  

      What  to expect during a treatment?When energy paths of the body are blocked or disturbed, this can result in illness, weakness, and pain. A reiki session can help realign and strengthen the flow of energy, decrease pain, ease muscle tension, speed healing, improve sleep, and generally enhance the body’s natural ability to heal itself. A session usually last an hour.  During that time a reiki practitioner places their hands in 12 to 15 positions on, or just above , various parts of the clients clothed body. These hand positions are held from anywhere to 2 to 5 minutes each.  Reiki is not used to treat or diagnose illness. It is a safe, gentle and effective complementary therapy.

     What can reiki be used for? Anything!  Because Reiki is such a gentle technique that is non invasive and non-manipulative,  you can receive treatments for anything you like, as many times as you would like. For this reason, Physicians and nurses, are beginning to recognize its value and have begun adding it to services provided by hospitals, medical clinics, and hospice programs. They indicate that Reiki reduces stress, decreases the need for pain medication, improves sleep and appetite, and accelerates the healing process. They also indicate that Reiki reduces many of the unwanted side effects of radiation and drugs, including chemotherapy.  Reiki, along with acupuncture, has been recommended by the World Health Organization to become part of medical and hospital service worldwide. 

 

     How is reiki learned?Reiki is transferred to the student by the Reiki teacher during an attunement. The Rei or universal energy makes adjustments in the student’s chakra’s and energy pathways to accommodate the ability to channel Reiki through symbols. The Reiki teacher does not direct the process, but is simply a channel for the attunement energy to flow, like a conduit. Once you have received a Reiki attunement you will have Reiki for the remainder of your life. It does not wear off and you can not lose it. There are levels of Reiki energy that require additional attunements. These levels just strengthen the Reiki energy, and teach you how to pass on the Reiki to others. Receiving  levels of attunement is  like completing  additional training to deepen your  knowledge or experience in this therapy. Reiki can never cause harm as it is universal life energy.  Because of this, Reiki knows what a person needs and will adjust itself to create an effect that is appropriate. Everyone has the ability to learn Reiki.

 

As a dedicated Reiki professional, one thing I find incredibly frustrating is an almost universal belief in a number of ‘Reiki myths’ amongst Reiki practitioners and Reiki teachers. So deep rooted are these beliefs that one would think they were fact, but unfortunately they are very far removed from any fact. In studying these ‘myths’ I find that there is truth in the origins, but this has been lost in the interpretation through a lack of understanding and awareness.

The main ‘Reiki myths’ that need to be dispelled are also the ones that make it hard for Reiki to be taken seriously as a healing therapy.

The biggest ‘Reiki myth’ is that ‘ Reiki does not heal or cure ‘, even though the founder Mikao Usui (Usui-sensei) in interview said he used his Reiki Ryoho to cure many illnesses. Many Reiki practitioners will say that ‘Reiki helps to create calmness and relaxation in a client. This state of relaxation creates the optimum state for the body to heal itself’. Others will say that ‘Reiki clears energetic blockages that will allow the body to heal itself.’ There are even some Reiki practitioners that believe Reiki cannot and should not be used to treat specific conditions – they believe that the role of Reiki is to treat the client ‘as a whole’ and allow the Universe to decide what the clients needs according to their karma/destiny.

While it is true to say that Reiki will create calmness and clear energetic blockages, this is not the primary mechanism by which Reiki acts on either physical or emotional conditions. Reiki will act directly on any condition as long as the Reiki practitioner channels the correct frequency of energy needed to cause healing to take place. This is relatively easy for any competent Reiki practitioner to do, but many either choose not to, or have not been trained to. I suppose it is much easier to help a client to relax than it is to heal them of their conditions, with the added bonus that you cannot fail as you are not even trying to treat anything, and if there is improvement it appears that much more amazing.

The other ‘Reiki myth’ that I hear so often is that ‘the energy is intelligent and it goes where it needs to’. This has been interpreted as meaning a Reiki practitioner can put their hands on any part of the client and the energy will travel through the client to the areas of greatest need without the Reiki practitioner doing anything. To me this seems like an easy option rather than an effective option. By believing this the Reiki practitioner does not need to bother with a consultation or assessment as they do not need to know what is wrong with the client – they just put their hands somewhere and ‘let the energy flow for the highest good’ and trust that the energy will work for the highest good (whatever that means).

Again, this contradicts the methods used by the founder of Reiki, Usui-sensei. In an interview he states “…if brain disease occurs I treat a head, if it’s an eye disease, I treat eyes…” and in his Reiki Ryoho Hikkei (Usui Reiki Handbook) he has specific hand positions to treat a variety of illnesses, so obviously Usui-sensei believed you should put the energy at the site of the illness or injury. It is so much more effective to treat the area that is damaged. In practice, putting energy into someone’s hand to treat a broken leg is not going to work. The energy will stay in the hand and affect the hand and the surrounding area only. By putting energy into the damaged area at the correct frequency the damaged cells/tissue/organ/bone will be stimulated to repair.

Another ‘Reiki myth’ that is bandied about is that ‘it does not matter what you do, it’s your intention that counts.’ This strikes me as another way of avoiding responsibility and any kind of effort to learn and work in the most effective way. I have seen Reiki practitioners and Reiki teachers on Reiki forums saying that it does not matter how you treat a client, it is your intention that is important. I have even seen a popular Reiki teacher say that it does not matter how you attune a student it is your intention that matters – he went on to say that he could attune a student whilst standing on his head in the corner of the room! This is wrong on so many levels I hardly know where to start…

Firstly, it does matter what you do and how you do it – it is by your thoughts and actions that you connect to the energy, channel the energy and direct the energy. By being active and focused you can channel the energy at the required frequency to effectively treat any condition.

As for attunements, this is a process that involves specific thoughts and actions developed by the founder of Reiki, Usui-sensei. This is the way a Reiki teacher initiates students into the system of Reiki and is a wonderful experience for both the student and the teacher. Each step of the process has meaning and purpose and should be carried out lovingly and properly and with respect for the gift that as a Reiki teacher you are bestowing on your student.

In reality, as Reiki practitioners and Reiki teachers we have a responsibility to our clients and students to do the best we can for them – this means working with good actions as well as good intentions. No matter how good the intention, if the action is poor then the outcome is equally poor.

Finally, the last ‘Reiki myth’ I want to deal with is the classic and much quoted ‘Reiki is passive, as a practitioner you have no input into the healing process and you should not even think about Reiki or healing or the client or their condition while you are treating them.’ This school of thought believes that by thinking about what you are doing you are interfering with the energy. What really happens when you do this is the energy stops flowing with direction and focus. I have tried this and I could feel the energy dissipating and reducing – conversely when I put my thoughts back onto the treatment the energy starts to flow much more strongly (and effectively). It is common sense really, wherever your mind and thoughts are the energy will follow. This is true in every area of life, e.g. when someone is talking to you and you concentrate on what they are saying you pick up much more than if you were thinking about something else.

© Copyright Andrew Chrysostomou 2007.

 

In this article I want to talk about Mindfulness and Compassion, which I believe are two essential components of Reiki practice. Whether we are treating others, working on ourselves, empowering others or living our lives with Reiki, we should grow to embody those two states, the essence of the Reiki precepts.

Mindfulness

According to Usui Sensei’s surviving students, Mikao Usui introduced his students to the practice of mindfulness at First Degree level, and emphasised this more at Second Degree level. According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary (9th Edition), to be mindful is to take heed or care, to be conscious. Mindfulness or being mindful is being aware of your present moment. You are not judging, reflecting or thinking. You are simply observing the moment in which you find yourself, fully aware. Moments are like a breath. Each breath is replaced by the next breath. You are there with no other purpose than being awake and aware of that moment.

So mindfulness is a state of living in the moment, of being relaxed, calm and fully engaged in what we are doing. Mindfulness is being fully aware of what is happening right now and giving ourselves completely to our task without distraction. By learning how to enjoy and be in the present moment we can find peace within ourselves.

Like precepts, mindfulness is largely associated with Buddhism and it is a meditative practice that is not reserved for special meditation sessions: it is a practice that you can embrace as part of your daily life and when carrying out routine and mundane tasks.

The best guide that I have found to the use of mindfulness as part of your daily life is the following book, written by Thich Nhat Hanh: “The Miracle of Mindfulness” and I recommend that all Reiki practitioners and teachers obtain a copy and practise being mindful during their daily activities.

I believe that Mikao Usui’s precepts are all about mindfulness, and that when we are exhorted by the precepts to “just for today” release anger and worry, we are being guided to exist as far as we can in a mindful state. Anger and worry are distractions, you see, and if we can exist in the moment by being mindful then we will not dwell on the past and beat ourselves up for things that did not go the way we wanted, and we will not dwell on the future, perhaps worrying about things that have not yet happened. We can learn to release our attachments to the past and the future and just “be” now, content and accepting in the moment, by learning to be mindful.

Compassion

The final precept, that of being “compassionate towards ourselves and others” is for me an exhortation to be gentle with ourselves, to be patient, to be light-hearted, to not take ourselves quite so seriously and above all to be forgiving – first of all of ourselves but also of others. By accepting and forgiving ourselves we start to release our anger and our worry, and move towards a state of contentment in the moment.

The original system was a spiritual path, a path to enlightenment, and the precepts were what Usui Sensei’s system was all about. These principles are a foundation for everything we do with Reiki: the states of mindfulness and compassion arise from following the precepts and from working with Reiki.

For example, how do we feel when we carry out a Reiki treatment? Treating someone with Reiki is a special, special gift. We feel a closeness, an intimacy, a merging with the recipient; we receive trust and we experience compassion. Ideally we should just be there in the moment, with the energy, with the recipient, with no expectations. We do not treat someone with the intention to resolve their health problem or eliminate their headache. We just merge with the energy and allow Reiki to do its work; we create a sacred space for healing to occur. If our mind wanders, as it may do, then we notice this and gently but firmly bring our attention back to the present and what we are doing. We become one with the energy as it flows through us, we become one with the recipient, and we experience that blissful contentment in the moment. When we treat we are mindful: we are an observer, not a participant.

Though some are taught that you can hold a conversation with someone as you treat, or watch television at the same time, this really will not lead to the best being given to the recipient. To be the most effective channel we can be, we need to be there with the energy, fully and gently engaged in our work, giving ourselves fully to the task without distraction.

Those same principles apply when working on ourselves, whether carrying out Hatsurei ho or self-treating. The state we should seek to achieve is that of being fully engaged in the endeavour, of being with the energy without distraction, merged, aware and simply existing in the moment, with a gentle feeling of forgiveness, love and compassion towards ourselves.

So both Mindfulness and Compassion are fundamental to our life with Reiki, fundamental to the Reiki precepts, to working on others and working on ourselves. Not surprisingly they are also an essential component of the transmission of Reiki to another person through carrying out Reiju empowerments. Reiju is the ‘connection ritual’ that Usui Sensei used, and taught to his surviving students. It is simple, elegant and powerful, free from the clutter and detail that surrounds most Western attunement styles. When we perform Reiju we have no expectations: we are there in the moment with the energy, following the prescribed movements. We are relaxed and fully engaged in what we are doing, aware of what is happening right now, and we give ourselves completely to our task without distraction. That is the essence of Reiju, the essence of treatments, the essence of the precepts, and the essence of our life with Reiki.

As co-founder of Reiki Healing Circles in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I can’t tell you how excited I am to realize that our very first Reiki Healing Circle is going to take place in one short week, Saturday, May 2, 2009. This Reiki Healing Circle is a gathering of Reiki practitioners for the purpose of offering Reiki energy to special needs children, their families and caregivers. This event is completely free of charge; let me be clear there is absolutely no fee to receive Reiki at this event. Reiki practitioners of all levels are welcome to participate either in person or by sending distance Reiki.This event will take place at 2534 S. Kinnickinnic Avenue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin beginning at 10 a.m. We ask that special needs families register to participate in this free event by calling my co-founder Sally O’Brien at 414-257-1931. Each special needs family will receive Reiki for 15 minutes. I will co-host a one hour teleseminar for all Reiki practitioners who will participate either in person or by distance. If you are a Reiki practitioner and would like to participate, please send an email to Sobrien23@wi.rr.com or SerenityLifeCoach@SandyWalden.com so that you may be given the number to call and the access code for this teleseminar. During this call we will set our intention for all who will be participating. This teleseminar will begin at 6 p.m. PST, 7 p.m. MST, 8p.m. CST and 9 p.m. EST.This will be an on-going event. We will be holding these Reiki Healing Circles every month, the second Saturday of the month. Please feel free to share this information with anyone who you think may be interested in participating.The holistic life coach part of me is very excited about this event. I know that when we offer others Reiki that healing and blessings are not only received by those who we have invited to receive, but also by all involved. When you have shared this information with others, you are part of this circle and we will send you blessings as well. So, once again the simple fact that everything we think, say and do not only goes out to others but comes back to us is confirmed once again. Thank you for sending your love to this project and for sharing this information with others. I know this is going to be a fabulous event and that all will benefit.For testimonials from a reiki circle in Pennsylvania, please see: http://www.the-place-for-reiki.com/children_circle.htmNamaste,Sandy

Reiki is a form of energy healing that has become a popular complement to modern medicine as well as an alternative healing therapy used throughout the world. Although its roots can be traced back centuries, it developed in its modern form in Japan in the early twentieth century. And, it is from two Japanese words (rei and ki) that we get the word Reiki. Roughly translated, Reiki means “universal life energy”.
Practitioners of Reiki believe that there is a type of subtle energy that flows in and around everyone and everything in the universe. It is this universal life energy that a Reiki practitioner attempts to channel to the afflicted person during a healing session.
Reiki practitioners believe that all illnesses have non-physical components. The purpose of a Reiki healing session is to channel additional life energy, or ki, to the person who suffers from some type of physical or mental trauma. The additional energy clears blockages and establishes an increased, and more efficient, internal flow of energy within the person. As this occurs, true healing can begin.
The time needed for an individual healing session varies depending on the client and the particular problem addressed. However, Reiki therapists generally schedule their sessions for 45-60 minutes. The client remains fully clothed during a Reiki session. He or she may lie flat or sit upright. It is especially important that both the healer and the person who has sought out healing feel comfortable, peaceful, and serene during the healing session. Soft lighting and relaxing music are often used by Reiki practitioners to increase these feelings.
When the client is comfortable, the therapist places his or her hands lightly on, or slightly above, the person’s body. The hands of the healer are held palms down with fingers and thumbs extended. During the session, the Reiki therapist will move his or her hands to particular locations on the body, following a specific routine. There are 12-15 Reiki hand positions which correspond to energy centers. The healer will stop at each of these locations to transmit energy. The healer will pause at each location until the flow of energy seems to subside or stop. When the energy flow subsides, the therapist will move to another hand position, working from head to feet. It is important to note that a Reiki healer does not direct the energy in an active sense. The Reiki practitioner is merely a conduit. He or she simply adopts the intent to heal. The life energy itself is intelligent. It goes where it is needed.
A sensation of heat is often taken as an indication of Reiki energy flow. However, a wide range of personal perceptual experiences may be reported by both the healer and the recipient. Among other things, a tingling, coolness, warmth, or the sensation of colors may be experienced.
According to Reiki therapists, people typically leave a Reiki session feeling very relaxed and tranquil. However, recipients of Reiki therapy sometimes experience what therapists call a cleansing crisis. They may feel headachy, nauseous, dizzy, or weak. For Reiki practitioners, these symptoms are the result simply of the body getting rid of toxins and realigning itself to the flow of ki. Rest and increased fluid intake are often recommended to help the person cope with these symptoms.

“The Process of Empowering One to Heal Themselves.” This definition of Reiki was shared with me, through the act of trance channeling, in 1995 by Wei Chi. Wei Chi, a Tibetan shaman, who walked the earth plane 5,000 years ago. Wei Chi brought forth a much more interactive, client participatory and extensive form of the healing art that we call Reiki. Over a four month time period, my life was dominated by Wei Chi channeling through me from which came the book The Lost Steps Of Reiki – The Channeled Teachings of Wei Chi. Since 1996, Wei Chi has been working with me to help bring, as fully as possible, the modern version of what was given to him by Master which today we call, “Wei Chi Tibetan Reiki”. For the first few years, the process was interwoven with traveling around the country, speaking to Reiki groups, through dialogues, and visiting healing centers and stores. In that part of the process, I was sharing from Wei Chi, both the additional things that never came forward in Usui Reiki, as well as some philosophical differences. Wei Chi’s commentary only used the most consistent form of Reiki at that time, the Reiki Alliance Reiki, as the reference point. As disdainful as he was of certain ways in which he felt the Reiki Alliance version of Reiki was an improper representation of the healing art, he was equally disdainful of the way in which renegade Reiki practitioners inconsistently added, subtracted, and sometimes, even misrepresented the Reiki they had originally learned. He felt the lack of oversight and standards of any kind was leading to the dilution and destruction of the credibility of Reiki, in general. Wei Chi was also cautious about any healing system in which clients were not asked to acknowledge their responsibility or even agree to participate in their own process of healing. He expressed concern that, at best, it seemed as if the client’s symptoms might be alleviated in the process but no time or energy was spent addressing the cause of the imbalances within the client’s life. For over two years, I traveled full time sharing the information Wei Chi had given me. In my travels, I met a wide variety of Reiki students and teachers, from the strictest of Reiki Alliance students and teachers to students who had received all three levels in one day, some of whom couldn’t even tell me who Usui was or demonstrate a hand position. The inconsistencies and various representations of Reiki was mind boggling. During my travels, a transitional training was created, with Wei Chi’s help, to help people who were at least at a Reiki level 2, to join Wei Chi’s form of Reiki at the Apprentice Level. In that training, one explored Wei Chi’s definition of Reiki and learned about the differences in such things as hand positions, long distance healing, client interaction, symbols, and the overarching goal of Reiki itself. The student that was attuned into the Wei Chi Tibetan Reiki was opened to a line of intuitive messaging that helped clients move towards a more empowered and self-healing place in their lives. Also, the student was introduced to what the next level (Practitioner) of Wei Chi’s Reiki looked like. The practitioner Level includes an overview of the Wei Chi Tibetan Reiki Treatment Series, which consists of seven, two-hour sessions. It is within this treatment series that Wei Chi’s original offering takes the client on the journey of becoming more empowered, self-healing, and self-aware. Additionally, in the Practitioner Level, students learn from their participation, how to elevate their intuitive messaging, learn to create powerful “homework” for the client, perform in-session assessments, and to effortlessly shift from intellectual to intuitive and back again. The responses I received from the sharing of this information went from people being very excited and telling me, “I have always know there was more!” to borderline death threats where they exclaimed, “You’re a heretic and you should be shot for trying to ruin Reiki like this!”. I have had all kinds of responses to the messages from Wei Chi. Over the past 14 years, Wei Chi has continued to work with me to structure and grow the system to better fit this day and age. He has added a Three, and Five Session Treatment Series, as well as a single modified treatment to the original Seven Session Treatment Series. The work has also expanded to include a Medical Intuitive Level and a Counseling Level. The beauty of a living system is that it grows and evolves with the needs of the people who are receiving it. In my travels, it was sad for me to discover that in the explosive growth that took place as a result of the proliferation of renegade Reiki Masters Wei Chi had been correct in his assessments. Everything has its place. For some the more passive form of Reiki, like Usui, is made to order. For others, a more active, interactive form of Reiki like Wei Chi Tibetan Reiki, where one “gets into the trenches with the client”, seems to be a better fit, and of course, as in all things, some people like to have both abilities in their tool belt. However, for the people that feel Wei Chi’s definition of Reiki, “the process of empowering one to heal themselves” does work, it feels like coming home.

There are many theories about how Reiki works. Most Reiki practitioners view Reiki as a passive form of healing, much like spiritual healing. What this means is that they channel energy into the client without consideration for the clients condition(s) as their intent is purely to allow the energy to take it’s own course through the body. Most Reiki healers say that the energy is ‘intelligent’ and will know where the individual needs healing and the body will take as much energy as it needs. They do not believe they are in a position to decide what needs treating or otherwise.

Many of those practising passive Reiki will put as little input into the healing as possible and often follow a set series of hand positions, remaining for roughly the same time in each position, regardless of where the injury or illness is.

The claim made by many of the Reiki healers who practise in this way is that Reiki simply allows the body to heal it self, the energy does not actually heal directly.The Truth About Reiki

The founder of Reiki Mikao Usui, treated conditions directly. He never claimed that Reiki allowed the body to heal itself and he would treat the body wherever the pain occurred saying in the Usui Reiki Hikkei (Usui Reiki handbook) “If brain disease occurs I treat the head. If it’s a stomach ache I treat the stomach. If it’s an eye disease I treat the eyes.” Usui treated whatever the condition was the healee presented him with, he never claimed that the energy would find it’s own route around the body. If someone has a tumour and you treat their head with Reiki, the energy will work on healing their head. There will probably innumerable blockages between the head and tumour preventing the energy from reaching it.

Reiki is as Usui Sensei said, unlike any other treatment in the world and original to Mikao Usui. He did not re-discover Reiki, he discovered Reiki and we owe it to him to teach and practise Reiki in the most effective way possible. This is what Active Reiki healers are doing, healing their clients to the best of their ability, offering the best service they can to their clients and this is what all Reiki practitioners should be doing.Why Active Reiki Works Best

With Active Reiki, variable frequency energy is being used to heal conditions directly. As well as this intention and visualisation are used to maximise the healing benefits. If someone comes for a Reiki treatment to help their bad back, that is exactly what an Active Reiki healer will treat.

By using Reiki in an active way energy is being channelled into whatever condition is being treated at the correct frequency needed by that condition. It has been shown that every part of the body vibrates at a certain frequency. If someone has a broken bone channelling energy into the bone at 7 cycles per second or hertz, stimulates bone growth.

Passive Reiki healers channel the complete energy healing spectrum into every condition that they treat where as Active Reiki healers channel energy at specific frequencies. This means that all the energy an Active healer uses is working on the condition being treated as opposed to passive healing where only a small part of the energy being used works on the condition. The rest of the energy being used is wasted on that condition.

The frequency is varied not by mathematical frequencies but the use of symbols (given to Mikao Usui on his 21 day retreat on Mount Kurama), which narrow down the frequency range, and colour, which further narrows down the frequency range.

This does not mean that an Active Reiki healer will work only on the physical condition being presented and not any emotional issues, just that different energies will be used to treat the different conditions or symptoms a person has. The predominant, most serious problem will be dealt with first and then underlying causes and other issues will be dealt with later.

Where a presenting pain has no actual physical cause but is purely the result of an emotional trauma, an emotional healing will of course be given and once that has been dealt with the pain should go.The Healing Success of Intention and Visualisation

While an Active Reiki healer is treating either themselves or a client they will always use intention and visualisation, which have been proven to speed up the healing process dramatically.

Dr Glen Rein PH.d. (Quantam Biology Research Labs) has carried out research into healing tumour cells using intention and visualisation. The most effective intention used was that the cells return to their natural order and harmony of the cell’s normal rate of growth (i.e. before they were transformed to tumour cells). This intention combined with a visualisation technique provided 39% inhibition of growth of the tumour cells. Treating the cells with the intention of letting God’s will take place only offered 21% inhibition and unconditional love offered no effect. This just goes to show that healing an illness with unconditional love will not work. By doing this the tumour cells are being told that it’s fine to stay just the way they are.

There were two visualisations used in the study. The visualisation used that involved a decreased number of cells in the dish gave 18% inhibition of growth of tumour cells. Where a visualisation was used of an increased number of tumour cells, the cells increased by 15%.

This study demonstrates that the most effective method for healing is to combine visualisation and intention and with the Reiki healing added on to this, the results are very often phenomenal.

Reiki practitioners owe it to the clients that come to them for help to treat them using all the methods and tools they have at their disposal. This is not playing God as some Passive Reiki healers claim, it is doing everything within your power to help that person. We were given the abilities we have for a reason and it is a terrible shame not to use them. A surgeon would not half finish an operation so why should a Reiki practitioner offer anything less than the best treatment they can give.

Mikao Usui the founder of Reiki, used everything within his power to treat those that came to him for healing and we owe it to him, to God or the Universe, to ourselves and to those that we treat with Reiki to do the same.

© Copyright Dawn Mellowship 2005.

These days there is a greater awareness of the importance of using natural means to cure sicknesses and diseases. We all know the use of drugs and synthetic medicines, while they work fast, tend to result in side effects. Worse still, reliance on drugs may get you addicted to them. As a result, there has been a shift in emphasis towards alternative medicines and methods of healing to deal with sicknesses. Reiki

One of such alternative methods of healing sicknesses is Reiki. Reiki is a Japanese method of healing diseases using touch, thought, symbols and color. The word ‘Reiki’ actually means ‘universal life energy’ in the Japanese language. Reiki principles state that your body is a field of energy. Sickness comes about when the energy in your body is blocked or weakened. This principle is also found in ancient Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese therapies such as Acupuncture. Thus the Reiki method of healing focuses on unblocking the flow of life energy and intensifying it to rid the body of sicknesses. Healing in Reiki takes place when the energy centers in the body, called chakras, are fully energized and promote the proper flow of life energy in the body. Using certain techniques, Reiki practitioners know how to energize your chakras. As a result, Reiki techniques are known to alleviate pains, lower stress levels, strengthen your immune system, increase your energy, improve symptoms of acute and chronic diseases such as asthma and arthritis and assist in your recovery from trauma and surgery. Reiki Healer

Do you want to learn how to heal using Reiki methods? You need to enroll into a Reiki healing course. To do so, you can either join a Reiki school or take up an online Reiki course. Either way, you will be trained in the various techniques of healing by a Reiki Master. This is called attunement. Healing in Reiki comes about by using your hands, thinking in certain ways and using ancient Reiki symbols. Each of these symbols has their individual meaning and use in promoting healing and wellbeing. The differences between enrolling in a Reiki school and taking up a Reiki course online are basically cost and convenience.

The cost for online courses is generally less expensive than enrolling in a school. Taking up a course online is also more convenient as you can learn at your own pace and at the comfort of your own home. But enrolling in a Reiki school, while more expensive, gives you the advantage of learning from a Reiki Master live.

Often, this is more effective and thus you will likely become more competent and proficient in Reiki at the end of the course. Reiki Master

There are many schools and online courses offering Reiki training on healing, so choose wisely according to your own individual means and circumstances.